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A Truckstop in the halls of Congress, a hotshot carrier’s tech-informed business

Failure to fund road repairs, notes Truckstop.com’s Chief Relationship Officer Brent Hutto in this week’s edition of the Overdrive Radio podcast, can hasten the incidence and increase the likelihood of the perhaps No. 1 reason owner-ops go out business — that’s a major mechanical failure, of course.

July 11, 2019

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40 years of trucking — and surviving — with owner-operator Ingrid Brown (Plus: Three tunes from Trucker Talent finalists)

Owner-operator Ingrid Brown started trucking as a teenager in 1979, and she’s been on the road since. In this edition of Overdrive Radio, hear her reflections on her 40-year career, many of those spent as a single-truck owner-operator, as well as her recent involvement in FMCSA’s Our Roads, Our Safety campaign and her ongoing bout with various forms of skin cancer.

June 28, 2019

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‘The sun will hunt you down’ in the truck: Joe Jolly on skin cancer risk

58-year-old Joe Jolly, following removal of a small spot of an aggressive type of skin cancer from his upper lip, offers a word of caution for younger drivers. Anything you can do to protect yourself from damaging ultraviolet radiation while trucking over the road today will pay dividends in later years.

June 14, 2019